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Green Lantern Reviews: "The End of an Era"

Sorry I have not been up on the reviews thing for a while, but things got moving in comics faster than I could write reviews. I decided rather than write one review per book, I would make a single review for the last few issues of Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, and Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors before the big renumbering comes about. Now as most people know, the Green Lantern War ended on a huge note, Sinestro is a GL again, and Hal got the boot. Sinestro having the ring, as the writers said, allows some new depth to be thrown into the story, but in my opinion, Hal having his ring taken away is going to be even more interesting, as he will need to learn how to live without his ring, and be something important without the power of the lanterns, something you can clearly tell when he says he is "nothing" when his ring is taken, needed to be done. I love Hal, I'm not gonna lie on that point, but his problem is obvious, he cannot feel important without his ring, thats not very admirable. As for our other dear GL's, Jon is in a personal battle, after being the one who murdered Mogo, he is feared and shunned by many lanterns, some lanterns even attempt violence against him, but he did what all soldiers do, he did his duty to save people, sometimes in combat, there is collateral damage, really, he did what had to be done. Guy Gardner seems to be doing what he always did, being the G: with attitude, and the last 2 issues of Emerald Warriors have been stand alone stories that for the most part were pretty cool. Kyle Rayner is being, as always, the teen angst GL, I am treading thin ice saying that, but he is the kid who cannot function without a girlfriend, even if it meant putting people in harms way when he lied to Sora and the Star Sapphire who saved him, he could take a page from Hal's book, he does not need to have a love interest every issue, all it makes for is a guy who is the teenage GL, I get more than enough angst out of Teen Titans with the whole Superboy-Wondergirl break up stuff, I don't need it in my GL comics.  On the note of the corps in general, the fact that the Guardians are scared silly by the fact that they can in fact be killed is pretty interesting really, they even told Saalak to back off, and locked themselves into their citadel, it is gonna be a bumpy road for the corps as I see it.   
 
Anyone who truly loves ALL the Green Lanterns though cannot just forget where it all started, like the fans of Secret Six who are sad for the ending of their favorite team of villains there (myself amongst them), I am sad to see the ending of the JSA series, and the loss of the Green Lantern who started the concept, Alan Scott, its gonna be tough to see him disappear, and I can only hope he appears somewhere in the new 52, or somewhere down the road, lets hope the JSA will not see its final days, its too great to see end, and the message the Green Lantern Alan Scott carries has always been about legacy, hopefully that will have some part in how that series ends, even if he retires, it is sad to see him go, hopefully he chats with Hal before he disappears. 
 
So, as the new 52 comes around, where will things go, well we have to wait and see, so far we know the JLA story is taking place 5 years ago, and Hal is still a GL, but the main stories will be focused in the Green Lantern titles on Sinestro, Jon, Guy, and Kyle, and with the New Guardians Series, and the Red Lantern series, I think the view of the corps will begin to become much bigger. Oh yeah, and Guy Gardner is headed back to join his old pals in JLI, which will be very fun to see him back with them.

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